Official list of MDG indicators prior to the 2007 revision
Effective 8 September 2003
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
Goals and Targets
(from the Millennium Declaration)
Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
Target 1: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose
income is less than one dollar a day
Target 2: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of
people who suffer from hunger
Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education
Target 3: Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike,
will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling
Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women
Target 4: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education,
preferably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015
Goal 4: Reduce child mortality
Target 5: Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five
mortality rate
Indicators for monitoring progress
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Proportion of population below $1 (PPP) per daya
Poverty gap ratio [incidence x depth of poverty]
Share of poorest quintile in national consumption
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Prevalence of underweight children under-five years of age
Proportion of population below minimum level of dietary energy
consumption
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Net enrolment ratio in primary education
Proportion of pupils starting grade 1 who reach grade 5b
Literacy rate of 15-24 year-olds
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Ratios of girls to boys in primary, secondary and tertiary education
Ratio of literate women to men, 15-24 years old
Share of women in wage employment in the non-agricultural sector
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament
13. Under-five mortality rate
14. Infant mortality rate
15. Proportion of 1 year-old children immunised against measles
Goal 5: Improve maternal health
Target 6: Reduce by three-quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal 16. Maternal mortality ratio
mortality ratio
17. Proportion of births attended by skilled health personnel
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
Target 7: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of
HIV/AIDS
Target 8: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of
malaria and other major diseases
18. HIV prevalence among pregnant women aged 15-24 years
19. Condom use rate of the contraceptive prevalence ratec
19a. Condom use at last high-risk sex
19b. Percentage of population aged 15-24 years with comprehensive
correct knowledge of HIV/AIDSd
19c. Contraceptive prevalence rate
20. Ratio of school attendance of orphans to school attendance of nonorphans aged 10-14 years
21. Prevalence and death rates associated with malaria
22. Proportion of population in malaria-risk areas using effective malaria
prevention and treatment measurese
23. Prevalence and death rates associated with tuberculosis
24. Proportion of tuberculosis cases detected and cured under directly
observed treatment short course DOTS (Internationally recommended
TB control strategy)
Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability
Target 9: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country
policies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources
Target 10: Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable
access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation
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Target 11: By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives 32.
of at least 100 million slum dwellers
Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development
Target 12: Develop further an open, rule-based, predictable, nondiscriminatory trading and financial system
Includes a commitment to good governance, development and poverty
reduction – both nationally and internationally
Target 13: Address the special needs of the least developed countries
Includes: tariff and quota free access for the least developed countries'
exports; enhanced programme of debt relief for heavily indebted poor
countries (HIPC) and cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more
generous ODA for countries committed to poverty reduction
Target 14: Address the special needs of landlocked developing countries
and small island developing States (through the Programme of Action for
the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States and the
outcome of the twenty-second special session of the General Assembly)
Proportion of land area covered by forest
Ratio of area protected to maintain biological diversity to surface area
Energy use (kg oil equivalent) per $1 GDP (PPP)
Carbon dioxide emissions per capita and consumption of ozonedepleting CFCs (ODP tons)
Proportion of population using solid fuels
Proportion of population with sustainable access to an improved water
source, urban and rural
Proportion of population with access to improved sanitation, urban and
rural
Proportion of households with access to secure tenure
Some of the indicators listed below are monitored separately for the least
developed
countries (LDCs), Africa, landlocked developing countries and small island
developing States.
Official development assistance (ODA)
33. Net ODA, total and to the least developed countries, as percentage of
OECD/DAC donors’ gross national income
34. Proportion of total bilateral, sector-allocable ODA of OECD/DAC donors
to basic social services (basic education, primary health care, nutrition,
safe water and sanitation)
35. Proportion of bilateral official development assistance of OECD/DAC
donors that is untied
36. ODA received in landlocked developing countries as a proportion of
their gross national incomes
37. ODA received in small island developing States as a proportion of their
gross national incomes
Market access
38. Proportion of total developed country imports (by value and excluding
Target 15: Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing
arms) from developing countries and least developed countries,
countries through national and international measures in order to make debt
admitted free of duty
sustainable in the long term
39. Average tariffs imposed by developed countries on agricultural
products and textiles and clothing from developing countries
40. Agricultural support estimate for OECD countries as a percentage of
their gross domestic product
41. Proportion of ODA provided to help build trade capacity
Debt sustainability
42. Total number of countries that have reached their HIPC decision points
and number that have reached their HIPC completion points
(cumulative)
43. Debt relief committed under HIPC Initiative
44. Debt service as a percentage of exports of goods and services
Target 16: In cooperation with developing countries, develop and implement 45. Unemployment rate of young people aged 15-24 years, each sex and
strategies for decent and productive work for youth
totalf
Target 17: In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to 46. Proportion of population with access to affordable essential drugs on a
affordable essential drugs in developing countries
sustainable basis
Target 18: In cooperation with the private sector, make available the
benefits of new technologies, especially information and communications
47. Telephone lines and cellular subscribers per 100 population
48. Personal computers in use per 100 population
Internet users per 100 population
The Millennium Development Goals and targets come from the Millennium Declaration, signed by 189 countries, including 147 heads of State and
Government, in September 2000 (http://www.un.org/millennium/declaration/ares552e.htm). The goals and targets are interrelated and should be seen as
a whole. They represent a partnership between the developed countries and the developing countries “to create an environment – at the national and
global levels alike – which is conducive to development and the elimination of poverty”.
Note: Goals, targets and indicators effective 8 September 2003.
a For monitoring country poverty trends, indicators based on national poverty lines should be used, where available.
b An alternative indicator under development is “primary completion rate”.
c Amongst contraceptive methods, only condoms are effective in preventing HIV transmission. Since the condom use rate is only measured among women in union, it is
supplemented by an indicator on condom use in high-risk situations (indicator 19a) and an indicator on HIV/AIDS knowledge (indicator 19b). Indicator 19c (contraceptive
prevalence rate) is also useful in tracking progress in other health, gender and poverty goals.
d This indicator is defined as the percentage of population aged 15-24 who correctly identify the two major ways of preventing the sexual transmission of HIV (using
condoms and limiting sex to one faithful, uninfected partner), who reject the two most common local misconceptions about HIV transmission, and who know that a
healthy-looking person can transmit HIV. However, since there are currently not a sufficient number of surveys to be able to calculate the indicator as defined above,
UNICEF, in collaboration with UNAIDS and WHO, produced two proxy indicators that represent two components of the actual indicator. They are the following: a)
percentage of women and men 15-24 who know that a person can protect herself/himself from HIV infection by “consistent use of condom”; b) percentage of women and
men 15-24 who know a healthy-looking person can transmit HIV.
e Prevention to be measured by the percentage of children under 5 sleeping under insecticide-treated bednets; treatment to be measured by percentage of children under
5 who are appropriately treated.
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An improved measure of the target for future years is under development by the International Labour Organization.